At the side of her newly absolved memoir, Cher is popping again past to mirror on her storied profession, spilling secrets and techniques and addressing rumors that she is “difficult” to paintings with.
In a fresh interview with The Sunday Times, the “Goddess of Pop,” spoke candidly about two initiatives she had labored on as an actress all through which she didn’t jibe with the movie’s administrators.
“There are only two directors I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich,” whom she labored with at the image, “Mask,” and “the guy from ‘The Muppets,’” relating to Frank Oz., who was once as soon as slated to direct her 1990 movie, “Mermaids.”
Cher attends the 2024 Rock & Roll Corridor Of Repute induction rite on Oct. 19, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for The Rock and Roll Corridor of Repute)
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Relating to Oz., Cher remembered giving an blackmail at the prepared of the 1990 movie, which was once in the long run directed via Richard Benjamin.Â
“I said, either you’re going or I’m going, which is a shame because he’s a really good director, but he had a thing about me,” Cher mentioned. “He would go, ‘At least my wife loves me!’”
A consultant for Oz. didn’t straight away reply to Fox Information Virtual’s request for remark.

Cher starred along Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins and Christina Ricci within the 1990 movie, “Mermaids.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Photographs)
Cher additionally laid into the past due Bogdanovich, with whom she labored in 1985. He had mentioned previous to his 2022 dying that Cher was once the “most difficult actor” he had ever labored with.Â
“He was an a–hole,” Cher mentioned of Bogdanovich. “He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f—ing arrogant. I really, really disliked him.”
“She didn’t trust anybody, particularly men,” Bogdanovich told Vulture in 2019, of his important woman. “She doesn’t like men. That’s why she’s named Cher: She dropped her father’s name. Sarkisian,” he added. Born Cherilyn Sarkisian, the singer officially asked a felony title alternate in 1979 to simply Cher.

Cher starred along Sam Elliott within the 1985 image, “Mask,” directed via Peter Bogdonavich. (Common/Getty Photographs)
However Bogdanovich was once in a position to confess that Cher’s disdain for him was once most likely on account of his disdain for her.Â
“She was always looking like someone was cheating her. I came to the set one day; I said, ‘You depress me, you’re always so down and acting like somebody’s stealing from you or something,'” Bogdanovich recalled.
Cher remembered her past on prepared another way, telling The Sunday Occasions, “He comes in and says, ‘Cher, where do you think we should film this scene?’ And I say, well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don’t we do that again? The next morning he arrives on set, eating an egg sandwich, and starts screaming that he’s not going to let me direct this film; I’m a nobody; he can cut me out at any moment,” she recounted.
“Oh yeah, he was a pig.”

Peter Bogdanovich as soon as claimed Cher was once the “most difficult actor” he’d ever labored along. (Araya Diaz/Getty Photographs for cinema prive)
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“Ask everybody: I’m really easy to work with,” Cher endured.Â
“I’m not arbitrary in the things I say, because it’s right to do what the director wants until you need to speak up. Meryl [Streep] says that if the director wants you to do something you don’t like, you say: yes, yes, yes, I’ll do it that way. Then you do it your way and they don’t even notice. I’ve worked with Bob Altman, Mike Nichols, Norman Jewison…. Really great directors whom I respect. I know when to listen.”

Cher refuted Bogdonavich’s claims that she was once tricky to paintings with. (Nathan Congleton/NBC by way of Getty Photographs)
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“Cher: The Memoir,” is out now.